The obstetrician's vademecum; or aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition; the application and use of instruments in preternatural labours; on labours complicated with hemorrhage, convulsions, etc / Considerably Augmented and arranged according to the present state of obstetricy, by Michael Ryan.
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The obstetrician's vademecum; or aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition; the application and use of instruments in preternatural labours; on labours complicated with hemorrhage, convulsions, etc / Considerably Augmented and arranged according to the present state of obstetricy, by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![chicken broth, beef tea, eggs, and animal jellies, with a small quantity of wine, may be allowed. When after-pains are troublesome, the anodyne draught ought to be repeated. All wines, spirits, and fermented liquors, are in- jurious to the healthy woman, and may predispose her to fever or inflammation. About the fourth or fifth day she may be placed on a sofa, drawn near the edge of the bed, while the latter is being adjusted, but she should never sit up, or walk about, until the lochial discharge is about to cease, or is very trifling, and that is generally about the ninth or tenth day, but in delicate women, much later. She may repose on a couch at this time, and gradually sit up for two or three hours; but she must be careful to guard against the extremes of heat or cold. At the expiration of three weeks or a month, she may take an airing in a carriage. Women in the lower ranks, rise and walk much earlier than the time above stated, they often do well, but more commonly suffer from prolapsus uteri, leucorrhcea, dyspepsia, and hysteria. While the lochial discharge continues, the womb remains enlarged, and if the woman walk or stand, it will fall from its weight into the pelvis, and lay the foundation of the above-named diseases. ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3328653x_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
